For an excellent overview of these issues see Vitek (1993: 118) In addition to this work, there is also a corpus of work on promises in game theory and economic theory, stemming from the contractarian project of grounding promissory obligation in self-interested rationality.
Recent studies indicate that key decisions on wastewater infrastructure expansion were not only influenced by path-dependencies stemming from China's national context, but equally (or even more critically) by the dominant rationality of the water sector's global socio-technical regime.
Soros recently passed much of the fund's management to his two grown sons, Robert and Jonathan, but under his direction it rejected the prevailing orthodoxy about the rationality of the market in favor of the notion that markets were prone to chaos and distortions stemming from human error.
Third, the relative certainty that existed about foreign and national security policies during the Cold War, which stemmed from assumptions of rationality underpinning the risks and rewards of those policies, has been disrupted by jihadist terrorism.
We have been looking at different ways of making sense of and justifying Davidson's claim that mental anomalism stems from the constitutive role of rationality in mental ascription.
"It stems from the adoption of terroristic methods as a substitute for rationality".
Contractualism, which stems from the Kantian line of social contract thought, holds that rationality requires that we respect persons, which in turn requires that moral principles be such that they can be justified to each person.
Rather, I argue, fragility in the financial markets stems from what I elsewhere dub recursive collective action problems, pursuant to which multiple acts of individual rationality aggregate into instances of collective calamity.
However, conditional rationality accepts present circumstances as they are and does not discredit an act because it stems from past mistakes.
Such caution stems from history.
It stems from self-doubt.
